Sunday, September 29, 2013

Gettin' Crunk on the TV News

Bright 'n' early on Saturday morning (6:45 a.m.!), I was on Fox-13's Good Morning Memphis mixin' up my Eggless Tofu Olive Salad from Cookin' Crunk with morning show host Wendy Nations. Okay, technically I wasn't mixing anything up at 6:45 on Saturday. The segment was pre-recorded around 10:30 a.m. on Friday to air on Saturday's show. I had the option of doing a live segment, but being up that early on a Saturday is tough.

Here's a screenshot. The full clip is at the bottom of this post.

Anyway, the producer had asked me to come in and talk about approachable vegan options, and she suggested that it'd be even better if I could demo something while I was being interviewed. I won't pass up any opportunity to promote veganism to the mainstream, so of course I said yes! A couple days later, the producer emailed back to let me know that host Wendy Nations was vegan too!

How cool! I've done cooking segments on morning shows before (one other time on Fox and another time on the local CBS affiliate) but never with a vegan host. Wendy told me, before we began filming, that she went vegan in February after a short vegan and gluten-free cleanse left her feeling better than ever.

Anyway, here's the full clip. It's only three minutes! And you get to see me make a blooper. I totally spilled red onions all over the counter. Oops!

My name is Bianca ...

About Me

I'm a 9-year vegan, 19-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.